On Thursday 4 June, St Peter's welcomes the St Salvator's Chapel Choir of the University of St Andrews for the opening night of its 2026 Swiss tour. The choir performs again later that week at the Französische Kirche in Bern, the Église Collégiale in Neuchâtel, and the Abbatiale in Romainmôtier — but Château-d'Œx is where the tour begins.

This is no ordinary student ensemble. The choir's history reaches back to the founding of the University of St Andrews in 1413. Today, under the direction of Claire Innes-Hopkins, it sings three services a week in chapel and tours internationally — recent visits to Washington National Cathedral, Bourges, the Thüringer Bachwochen, and Roskilde.

The programme spans five centuries and four languages — music by Tallis, Bach, Walton, Vaughan Williams, MacMillan, Poulenc, Holst, Wood, Chilcott and Stanford — shaped around the church's year. Three of the University's Campbell Watterson Organ Scholars accompany the choir and take solos at the historic 1917 Goll memorial organ — the instrument given to St Peter's by readers of The Times of London in 1917, a gift to the British prisoners of war interned in Château-d'Œx during the First World War.

Thursday 4 June, doors from 7.00 pm, concert from 7.30 pm. St Peter's Anglican Church, Grand Rue 49, 1660 Château-d'Œx. Free entry, retiring collection in support of the choir's tour.

Full programme and details: https://stpeters.ch/st-salvators-chapel-choir/